Sun2Retire said:
It's hard enough being back home in our empty house, I don't know how we're going to climb back in the coach filled with dog toys. We just lost our 13 year old Sheltie to a heart attack. We were both there, and she was healthy to the last second, playing ball last night - small favors.
Scott, we posted to your thread once already but since then we have lost our 17 year old Heidi. As you well know, grief for a lost pet is hard to endure and we are only now starting to recover but in the days since we have come across many meaningful poems that touch our hearts and remind us of our loving pet. May I post one that I came across somewhere and do not know the author but it describes our (and probably many others) situation so well as told from the pet's point of view:
Waiting at the Door??
I was just a pup when we first met, I loved you from the start,
you picked me up and took me home and placed me in your heart.
Good times we had together, we shared all life could throw,
but years passed all too quickly, my time has come to go.
I know how much you miss me, I know your heart is sore,
I see the tears that fall when I?m not Waiting at the Door.
You always did your best for me
your love was plain to see,
for even though it broke your heart
you set my spirit free.
So please be brave without me,
one day we?ll meet once more,
for when you?re called to Heaven
I?ll be Waiting at the Door.